it's November again. which also means there's plenty of rain on this little island i call home - lots of it. i'm someone who loves rain. and this year is no different...only that there is someone i'm missing so much. but i digress.

work's been filling up pretty nicely. i'm fitting in well and i'm liking it so far. i don't have any classes since school's out and the kids are enjoying their holidays, so work has fallen into this admin routine (bleh)...but i'll make it through till the new year comes.

on a different note altogether, i've been putting on a brave front when it comes to certain things that are happening in life right now but truth be told, i think i'm just about to crumble.

so tell me, what have you been up to?

No, I don't mean her, i meant teacher (students here have a habit of calling their teachers 'cher' ).

So yes, I am now officially a cher. (I know. Idah's teaching?! Some parents are probably doing a synchronized facepalmplz ).

What I really am though, is an ICT Executive at a primary school. But other than ICT-related tasks and overlooking the IT core structure within the school, I also plan lessons and teach ICT-related subjects. It's been a fun ride for me. I'm enjoying it thoroughly cos it's a combination of two things (design & teaching), as a kid, I've always thought I'd wanna do when I grow up. I guess in a way, I'm living my childhood dream. And this wonderful opportunity has come by at just about the right time for me.

Ok, so sometimes they can be a handful to handle but those who really want to learn just sparks something in me. It's been a nice change of environment (from working 10 hours in front of the puter back in the ol design house days).

Plus the school's just five minutes away from home & the pay's waaay better. Me loikes

So yea, that's pretty much it. I'll probably be uploading some photos from a certain Tioman trip from sometime last year.

So tell me, do you like cheese?

So I fiddled with a bit of CSS. I figured a donated subscription should not go to waste. Besides, I need the practice lest I start losing whatever I've learnt.

On a different note altogether, you know how being jobless usually renders one feeling helpless and somewhat in the rut? What with the whole 'no direction in life' label that just looms over you and the fact that you're not in the best of financial states? Well, (at the risk of getting facepalmed by workaholics and my Mister ) I'm the happiest I've been since I resigned from my Senior Designer position in May 08. So I'm jobless. So I rake in unpredictable (puny) amounts of money over freelance assignments. But I'm stress-free (almost) and I haven't had to deal with a single asshat (almost). I suppose that's putting the "pro" in procrastinator.

That aside though, I finally put an end to this whole procrastinating business and finished my site last month and have been religiously sending out resumes. I think I've had enough of care-free, home-making days and I'm all geared up for the corporate world again.

I've got two interviews next Tuesday. Wish me luck.

So tell me, what have You been up to?



<sub>Going back to the corner where I first saw you,
Gonna camp in my sleeping bag. I'm not gonna move,
Got some words on cardboard got your picture in my hand,
Saying if you see this girl can you tell her where I am,
Some try to hand me money they don't understand,
I'm not broke I'm just a broken hearted man,
I know it makes no sense, but what else can I do,
How can I move on when I'm still in love with you

Cos if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me,
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I can be,
Thinking maybe you'd come back here to the place that we'd meet,
And you'd see me waiting for you on the corner of the street.

So I'm not moving
I'm not moving.

Policeman says son you can't stay here,
I said there's someone I'm waiting for if it's a day, a month, a year,
Gotta stand my ground even if it rains or snows,
If she changes her mind this is the first place she will go.

Cos if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me,
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I can be,
Thinking maybe you'd come back here to the place that we'd meet,
And you'd see me waiting for you on the corner of the street.

So I'm not moving
I'm not moving.

I'm not moving
I'm not moving.

People talk about the guy
Who's waiting on a girl
There are no holes in his shoes
But a big hole in his world

Maybe I'll get famous as man who can't be moved,
And maybe you won't mean to but you'll see me on the news,
And you'll come running to the corner
Cos you'll know it's just for you

I'm the man who can't be moved
I'm the man who can't be moved

Cos if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me,
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I can be,
Thinking maybe you'd come back here to the place that we'd meet,
And you'd see me waiting for you on the corner of the street.

So I'm not moving
I'm not moving.

I'm not moving
I'm not moving.

Going back to the corner where I first saw you,
Gonna camp in my sleeping bag not I'm not gonna move.

The Script :. The Man Who Can't Be Moved</sub>

So I hit the old memory lane last night.

I visited old deviant friends on their userpages to see how they're doing and maybe land a comment/note or two. I read old journal entries. I read old conversation threads. Many made me smile. I sent out emails to friends I've long not spoken to and added some on my MSN (we should catch up)

This made me think of all the people and things I associate with some of the best times I've had here on deviantART - some were friends right from the start, some were acquaintances. Some were the staple on the commnunity back in the day, some were crazy events that went down that had deviants talking. Some jog the memories of older deviants of how tacky the site looked in its early years, but we loved it anyway.

So here it is.


`achfoo
=agarash
~aquilier
`bookdiva
`chilipalmer
`dreamz13
~evad
`fleet21
`fuzzydemon
*ink-brains2
~jellycious
~jhxmt
~justb
*killjoy
!kipton
~laundrypowder
`olya
~pigletteus
`poetess
~soul1276
`spunj13 and his beautiful writing
~tilt176
~trillian
~ksh
~crypticbebop
~dinxy
°jark and his probe
°matteo and his pug
°attila
~flosaurus
`utro
`aelis
°euphoria
~five
`splat
`iMike
`nieman
`brazensix
`olya
`hesitation
`foureyes
`hempingway

the common shoutbox
the collective rectum
raping jenni in #devart
the word 'w00t'
the word 'j00'
the 'copy paste shit people' thread by ~pumpy
TMSOD on userpages
the Angry Key Deviants
devpacks
screencaptures of the n^th pageview for a fellow deviant


Happy 8^th birthday deviantART.

ah, new face. i'm liking dA6 so far (yey for thumbnails).

so some of you may have noticed i'm (sorta, kinda) back in the game. I went ahead to be a good girl and went through my message centre - my best record so far. 1698 messages. I ploughed through the deviations (some of you woulda seen me lurking around your uploads) so now i'm down to 200.

in other news, i tried my hand at making sushi yesterday. they tasted good but looked ungood. but meh, i guess it's the taste that matters, right? right.

also, on a different note altogether, i'm currently jobless. well, technically. i resigned from my design house in May 08 and have been doing freelance work. there's dosh but not a steady income so i'm sourcing out for a new permanent job - that remains to be seen.

wish me luck?

well, enough about me. tell me about you. it's been a while.
how *ya* doin?